Chauncey Goodrich

Chauncey Goodrich ( born October 20, 1759 in Durham, Middlesex County, Connecticut; † August 18, 1815 in Hartford, Connecticut ) was an American politician who represented the state of Connecticut in both chambers of Congress.

Goodrich studied law at Yale University, where he graduated in 1776. He then worked as a teacher at a school before he lectured from 1779 to 1781 even at Yale. After completing his studies, he was admitted to the Bar Association of Connecticut in 1791 and began to work as a lawyer in Hartford.

His political career began Goodrich, who belonged to the Federalists in the House of Representatives from Connecticut, where he served from 1793 to 1794. He retired from there after he had been elected for the sixth district in the state House of Representatives. Member of this chamber he was on 4 March 1795 to 3 March 1801 while in the last two years at his brother's side Elizur.

After the end of his tenure in Philadelphia Chauncey Goodrich returned to Connecticut, where he again worked as a lawyer and from 1802 to 1807 the Governor 's Council was a member, a kind of consultative chamber. 1807 appointed him the state parliament to succeed the late U.S. Senator Uriah Tracy. After a re-election he remained until May 1813 Member of the Senate before he was resigning from office to become Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut. In the previous year he had been elected mayor of Hartford. Both offices he held until his death in 1815.

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